Educational opportunities for students are at the heart of the quest to solve this misunderstood public health crisis. BY CAMRAN NEZHAT, MD, AND BARBARA PAGE For decades, our group has been working to increase awareness around endometriosis as not just a reproductive tract disease, but a whole-body disease that can affect all organs. Endometriosis continues […]
Opinion
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By Yan Mei Goh With the advent of the obesity endemic, surgeons would more frequently encounter obese patients and its challenges when performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Some guidelines suggest that obesity alone is not an indication for conversion to open cholecystectomy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the morbidly obese patient pose different difficulties at each stage of […]
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By Daniel Kuhn, MD This article presents a simple, coherent approach and technique that can release traumatic fixations and associated negative states of mind. It can help an individual return to his/her pre-traumatic level of function and pre-traumatic personality. Mental traumas and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are universal phenomena, which are not unique to […]
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By Herbert A. Goldfarb, MD During the last thirty years hysterectomy has been performed in this country between 600 and 700 thousand times each year. At least two thousand women die from the procedure each year. Can you believe that Hysterectomy has become the cure all procedure for women’s health problems? Hysterectomy is a major […]
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Dear health care administrator, I am writing to you in a spirit of cooperation, because the way health care works today, it is too complex a business to manage on the side while also taking care of patients. And I hope you don’t have any illusions about medicine being so simple that non-physicians like yourself […]
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By: Mary Lou Ballweg The news of higher risk of heart disease in women with endometriosis, especially younger women, (Circulation, March 29, 2016) may be shocking and cause some fear. But if you’ve followed our work all these years, you already know that endo is a systemic (whole-body) inflammatory disease. And inflammation, as is clear in […]
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Patient Spotlight By Lindsay This is the story about my struggle with endometriosis and the people who saved my life. I was only 12 years old and surely not sexually active. I was an athletic, and a high-energy teenager. I ran track, played varsity volleyball and rollerbladed to and from school everyday. My OBGYN attributed […]